Chip 8

**Remote** · January 28th, 2011, 22:47

Anyone made one of these in Python 3.x?

**ihearpixels** · January 29th, 2011, 04:52

Nope.

Or Ruby

Or even NASM/MASM based x86 ASM for the insane.......(wait, that gave me a idea....)

**david winter** · February 21st, 2011, 20:35

Hi there,

I thought I would never come back to my old 1990s MS-DOS Chip-8 emulator but my curiosity went too far. Luckily I picked an old CDROM with my sources. Got a headake to have MS-DOS booting from a floppy as I can't boot on a USB key. But I rapidly got sick of the old MS-DOS command line prompt and quickly wamped the whole thing from the hard drive.

Which brings me two questions for the heck of it...

1) What's the most accurate Windows-based emulator so far ? I'd like to play a few games for the old fun (both CHIP-8 and Schip).
2) If I had to port my sources to Windows for the challenge, what language would you recommend ?

Finally, are the original Cosmac-VIP games online ? I still have the old hex dumps on my CD and could post them here.
So far as I know, only one or two programs used a call to some 1802 machine code.

Any thoughts ? Thanks!

**smcd** · February 22nd, 2011, 00:58

Originally Posted by david winter

Hi there,

I thought I would never come back to my old 1990s MS-DOS Chip-8 emulator but my curiosity went too far. Luckily I picked an old CDROM with my sources. Got a headake to have MS-DOS booting from a floppy as I can't boot on a USB key. But I rapidly got sick of the old MS-DOS command line prompt and quickly wamped the whole thing from the hard drive.

...

Any thoughts ? Thanks!

thought i'd derail the thread a bit and respond to the emboldened text- if it's because your bios doesn't support usb booting... never fear! i had an old laptop and put Plop boot manager on it and it works fine, albeit with a couple more steps than official bios support

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

**hap** · April 11th, 2011, 12:19

Ohh, nice to see a message from you here David. Thank you for your work and games, it helped many emulation enthusiasts get into emulator programming.

1) I honestly don't know, there are many many CHIP-8 emulators/interpreters around. I could brag that my implementation includes basic Cosmac VIP emulation (1802 cpu and all), but I won't.

What I do want to brag about is the two games I made, Rush Hour for CHIP-8 and Sokoban for Super-chip, available with source code at my homepage: http://tsk-tsk.net/
2) ask yourself, what programming language are you good at/comfortable with?

Cosmac VIP games, I don't know, I do know that there are some hybrid CHIP-8/1802 games online. There's a program pack on http://chip8.com if you want to check it out.

**_Zack_** · January 28th, 2012, 23:07

It's available on iTunes for free :

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dream...492703600?mt=8

There is a chip8 emulator i wrote in lua using the Corona SDK for the iPhone (android version available tomorrow)

More info on this and other projects can be found on my site : http://www.infuseddreams.com/